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(Um...yeah, I realized that people are hand my char weaponry and acting as though she's unarmed. Who would go into this unarmed!? Really? I'm almost a little insulted -_-;

Just to set the record straight, she's armed to the teeth. Check my profile to see what she carries. )

"That'll bog me down, Clastov. But thank you. Use it if you need it." She hefts her machine gun in front of her, ready to shoot.

A body was there, dressed in a uniform that identified it as belonging to the hangar deck crew, and looking like it had been dead for a while. At least, it seemed it was a body for the split moment before the head shoots off, attached to a long, muscular tentacle neck, and the skull splits open vertically, a slavering tongue flopping around. With startling speed, the head-clamp vices around Alerions face, obscuring his view of everything but the tongue flailing against his fave mask.

Unseen by the other two, a serrated blade juts out from the neck cavity that the tentacle appendage was, and the thing starts pulling Aleron toward it...



Sonja stops her barely audible whispering and starts singing an old Terran song, just loud enough for everyone to hear...

(( -grins hope no one disagrees that a heavy rivet gun at that range and go through a wall since it is pretty much high powered metal. ))
As soon as the Captain moved to attack Misha would sprint forward and skid to the side of the corner and begin to unload into the thing, in 20 seconds over 20 motlen hot high velocity rivets would punch through the thing's body leaving gaping burning holes in it as the Captain plastered it with the shotgun. Misha lowered the power on it and poped it 6 more times for good measure trying to rivet the thing to the wall...

Aurora's blade would cut into and sever the neck, and her shotgun blast and Misha's rivets would tear into the body, the gaping holes left behind revealing the body cavity seemed to be hollow. Of course, the point-blank shot from Aleron's sonic blast makes the hinged skull blast apart, showering everyone with bits of it and causing a few minor nicks on Aleron's head from the fragments. The remaining portion of the tentacle-neck falls limp, and the body remains as unmoving as it had been before.

Over the intercom, Sonja's voice can still be hear singing...

"Hey, what just happened out there?" Mio asks from the bridge. The sudden and rapid discharge of weaponry was unmistakable over the open comm line.

"I think we just figured out what we're up against," Aurora responds to Mio. "Dr, keep a close watch on the survivor...I think...she might change..." She remembered hearing Sonja mutter something about turning into one of 'them' and wondered what, exactly, would cause such a transformation. "Mio, do you know if there are other life signs on this station? Human ones?" She might call a retreat for now, if there was no one they needed to rescue. She wanted to regroup and assess the situation.

(Aaah. He's very patronizing. sweatdrop

Anywho, I'm happy I got a good lick in before I have to work. Got stuck with later hours the next couple days, so I won't be around -_-;

AnCat has my char. )

Ukaia finished her inspection, the rest of the pods were in tact, any problems had been stablizied and she sighed releived. They were safe, the ones she could save. She glanced back at Boda. It really wasn't good for him to be awake. He should have been able to sleep though all of this. The fewere people awake the better. She could protect them if they were in cryo. Not so much if they were out.

She debated knocking him out and putting him back into cryo, but then again... she kind of wanted somone helping her. But did she have any right to put him in danger?

"you should probly go back into cryo. They don't go after them" she said slowly to him. She'd let him decide.

"As long as you're in cryo you're safe.. If you want, I'll put you in a fresh pod and let you sleep" she offered as she reached up pushing some hair back from her face. It was becoming annoying. She loved her long hair but.. she should really cut it off. Gin's ears perked up. There was the very distant sound of gun fire..

"Did you hear that?" she asked wide eyed. She moved towards the door. Somone was shooting.. she was sure of it. She swollowed hard.

"Means somone crashed into us. I have to tell them.. mabye.. mabey we can get off of here" she whispered her mouths uddenly dry. But.. if there was gun fire.. they'd run into one of them. they might have all be infected. She'd have to kill them.. No.. she'd not think of that right now. She'd hope.. hope they were alright. Gin grabbed a suit and handed it to Boda.

"Put it on" she said to him as she licked dry chapped lips. Her heart thudded fearfully in her chest

"It sounds like people are here" she whispered

((Misha; That's a good question. I would guess that different creatures infect you different ways, while others just want to eat the hell out of you. That thing I would thing would either implant a paracite into that would grow, hence that needle almost going into my neck, or just crawl in you, eat you, and use your body as a puppet until it found another like some sore of body-hopper.

Though of course, Ancat might was US to figure that out, like through research of the creatures/finding logs about them, etc))